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Altavista is HUGE and you can do an images search as well (and audio and video), but you must 'understand' somewhat how Altavista works before you get relevant results. I use the Advanced Search many times.

Google is different from Altavista in more than one way: The most obvious difference is the fact that the site itself is much... cleaner
Searching with Google is a VERY fast way to search either AND best thing (IMO): the search results are automatically filtered so that you won't have double URLs and other inconveniences experienced with other search engines.

PS: I'm getting 99% of the traffic on EmuDreams from Google (Google.yahoo.com as well) so that's another reason I like this S.E.

I like Dmoz (ODP) when I am looking for many sites on a similar subject as it is a huge directory (bigger than yahoo at the minute I think) plus I edit a small catagory there so I should really support it

When I want to use a search engine and not a directory I like Google and Raging. Both are very similar, and produce very quick results.

AltaVista has always been my preferred search engine: if I needed to find something, there was no hesitation... I'd go straight to av.com and always find what I was looking for.

Lately though, especially if I need to find something fast, I will head right on over to Google. Google's listings seem to be much more relevant than other search engines, and the speed is amazing!

I've never been impressed with Yahoo... used it about a dozen times and all it has come up with is junk. I have had good results with WebCrawler and Excite in the past though, WebCrawler is good if you need some quick links and don't want to sift through all the descriptions, while Excite usually provides relevant information if you spend some time looking through all the pages.

I use Google, Hotbot, Dogpile, AllTheWeb.Com, and sometimes Altavista. I dont like yahoo i dont understand how it became so popular. goto.com isnt a real search engine, most of the top positions for certain keywords can be bought. Excite is OK, it is pretty intelligent but i dont get a ton of relevant results, which is a waste of my time.

Google and Hotbot(in my opinion) give the most relevant results. AllTheWeb.Com is good if you need to find something fast. DogPile is a great metasearch that doesnt wait for search engines if the are slow.